On 13 August 2013 09:37, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > Peter says he knows somebody who knows somebody who dug some instance of > this hardware out of some landfill or something.
No, I personally myself had the hardware. Really. > Me, I want to get something that works on new qemu _and_ last year's > qemu, and that's what I got. Note that in general hoping that current mainline kernel will always work with ancient QEMU is a losing proposition -- it is always possible that a kernel improvement will trigger a latent model bug in QEMU. (To pick a random example, some while ago fixes to how the kernel dealt with BGR and RGB pixel formats on the versatile board broke QEMU because we weren't modelling it right; that was just a QEMU bug for which the fix is "get a newer QEMU".) The back-compat in the PCI code is so that the older kernels (2.6.x) will continue to work, which is not quite the same thing. -- PMM
